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Passenger Pigeon Case Study: How Even Large, Stable Populations May Be at Risk for Extinction (5 of 7)

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Passenger Pigeon Case Study: How Even Large, Stable Populations May Be at Risk for Extinction (5 of 7)

image: Passenger pigeons from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science collection. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 17, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by G.G.R. Murray at University of California, Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, CA, and colleagues was titled, "Natural selection shaped the rise and fall of passenger pigeon genomic diversity." view more 

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